In December 2001, I received an invitation that surprised me. U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher invited me to present at his final official conference, Closing the Gap: Surgeon General's National ...

You can learn more from watching a patient walk down the hallway than from the rest of the exam. Most exams happen sitting or lying down. Narinder Singh Parhar is an internal medicine physician and ...

Six days. $20,000 in legal fees. One advance directive (living will) applied too soon. A 60-year-old man suffered complications after cardiac catheterization, developing acute kidney injury from the ...

A patient can leave a medical appointment with an explanation, a printed instruction sheet, and a question that has not occurred to them yet. The question may arrive while arranging a ride, talking to ...

A patient with a urinary tract infection calls at 9 p.m. and gets told to call back in the morning. Frustrated patients default to the emergency room instead. Tod Stillson is a family physician, ...

Like most physicians, I have earned a great many continuing medical education credits in rooms where I learned very little. A slide deck, a speaker reading the slides aloud, a ten-question quiz at the ...

Gratitude is easy to preach and hard to feel on a bad day. One physician spent a 40-year career learning to practice it on purpose. Scott Abramson is a neurologist and author. This episode is based on ...

More than 16 million Americans are estimated to have a diagnosis of dry eye disease. And the number of symptomatic patients living without a diagnosis is thought to be almost double. As a health care ...

Your patients can see everything you post. Tali Lando was posting funny videos from her office while two of her young patients lay in the hospital struggling to recover, and it left her torn. She is a ...

The lab says the potassium is critically low. You walk in, and the patient looks completely fine. Duane Penshorn is an emergency physician and author. This episode is based on his article “Automation ...

This page lists every episode of The Podcast by KevinMD published in 2021, 368 in all from January to December, with the guests and, for 300 of them, one sentence from the guest’s answer to the show’s ...

Read together, the 95 KevinMD posts on board certification say one thing consistently: physicians value passing the boards once and have spent a dozen years arguing that the cycle of recertification ...